Word: blackout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clues bring his reliability as a witness into doubt. When life with Meg drifts too much toward surrealism and subjectivity, Richard's vignettes of life in the library help reassert his point of view. He composes provocative first sentences to imaginary short stories ("On the night of the blackout, Liz and Mike made love but not to each other"). He does a fine interior monologue about the psychiatrist as fortune cookie ("Be cautious yet confidently aggressive...
Kicked out of school for fighting a guidance counselor in what he calls a "temper blackout," Bob was sent to Bellevue Hospital for a psychiatric examination. "At the nut house they told me I wasn't an alcoholic because of my age. I was told that if I handled my emotional problems, I would be able to drink normally." Bob nonetheless tried A.A., not once but three times between binges. "I just hadn't decided that I wouldn't drink any more...
...powered by generators. Yet there were compensations. Mayfair's elegant shops looked even more elegant with lighted silver candelabra on their counters. The widespread use of candlelight cast a heartwarming, old-fashioned glow over the misery of it all. Recalling the baby boom after the 1965 New York blackout, officials decided at 10:30 p.m. they had best sponsor a birth control campaign. Now the last thing Londoners will hear when they turn off the telly is: "Make sure your baby is a wanted...
...novel ends, appropriately, in an electricity blackout. So phantasmagoric is the normal life of the Sohier family and their friends that the power failure does not seem to alter their behavior dramatically. If these people were germs on one of those glass plates used in general-science courses, they would be the kind that mad Army biologists yearn to drop on Russia. But they move, thrive and incontestably have life. Whether this is a good thing or not is a judgment the author does not make...
Christmas Dimout. The requested ban on outdoor illumination will crimp the plans of many communities and businesses to put up dazzling Christmas displays. Even before the President's call for a blackout, Detroit Mayor Roman S. Gribbs had ordered a "dimout" of Christmas lighting, and has been severely criticized for it. Groused Councilman David Eberhard: "This town needs some joy. If we turn off the color, the sparkle, the life, then we're a dead city." To conserve electricity, the small town of Jefferson, Iowa, stilled the carillon bells that pealed hymns and patriotic music...